Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Postpartum unwanted intrusive thoughts based on intentional infant-related harm or obsessive-compulsive disorder ...

Are you anxious because you are having thoughts about hurting other people? These thoughts are a lot more common than you think. While it can be confusing and scary to have thoughts like this, they ...

While the mental health condition has been depicted in movies and television somewhat often, many of those depictions lean ...

Many new mothers experience unwanted and intrusive thoughts about intentionally harming their babies, but those thoughts don’t appear to increase the likelihood that they will actually harm their ...

FARGO - Tamara Wagner's obsessive-compulsive disorder was so severe that for a while she refused to leave her home. "It took such a good chunk of my life that I really didn't have time to do anything ...

You’re standing at the edge of a subway platform. Your ride is approaching through the tunnel — and perhaps you think, for the slightest instant, how easy it would be to jump in front of the moving ...

Even if you mean well, these phrases usually hurt more than they help. Here’s what to say instead to show a loved one with ...

I was 26 when my therapist told me that, according to the answers that I gave to a diagnostic test, I fell within the range of “severe OCD.” I told him that I was worried that I had somehow lied or ...

It’s one thing to read about the signs, symptoms, and types of OCD, the overlap with other mental disorders, the theoreticals about how obsessions and compulsions can affect your life and career and ...

A soon-to-be mother posted about a predicament she’s in online regarding the baby she’s currently carrying, her husband, her brother and his condition. She calls her brother “one of the kindest and ...

I normally hate using OCD as an adjective, but I think it’s ok this way: Wanna be OCD friends? I ask because I have OCD, too, and hanging with someone else who just gets it can make all the difference ...